The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-04-09

That Christ Jesus actually. suffered r
death on the cross without the gates OF {
Jerusalem more Than eighteen hundred ,
years ago is fact fully attested by G
history, both sacred and profane. No ,
one possessed with competent in {
formation will dispute that fact. s
cnRIsT's REsURRECrIoN. --
The writer's of the New Testament
have staked the truth of Christianity
on the actual performance of a single
miracle-the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead.
First-Let US examine the SUPPOSE
ton that the work was that OF human
agency. IT 80, then IL must have been
done by either the friends or the foes
of Jesus. Allowing that His friends
would have done it, the question arises:
could they? They had shown theme
selves to be weak and titnorous. 1t
seems, therefore, incredi.able that they
should undertake such task as over"
coming a strong guard Of armed sol
diers, and no claim. was made either
by the soldiers or others that there was
any attempt to use force. Ii is true
that "A story was set at1oat by HIS enc
mics that HIS body was stolen while
the soldiers slept. But it bears false
hood on its very face, for as Augustine
save: "Etner the soldiers were asleep
or awake. If they were awake why
should they suffer the body to be taken
. away? II they were asleep how should
r they know that the dcciples took 1t
e away?"
Second-But that His enemies did it
= Is still less creditable. Ifthey possessed
: the body they would certainly have
r produced it and thus put to silence the
claim of His disciples that He..was yet
alive.
DR.. Carpenter says; 81 regard the
l. historical evidence of the resurrection
r. as standing on a far wider basis than
- historical evidence Of any single mira
a Gle of the New Testament
If DR.. Arnold says: thousands ano
t. ten thousands have gone through ii
" piece by piece as carefully as ever judge
CO summed up on most important cause
" I have myself done it many times
v, over, not to persuade others, but t
ne satisfy myself. I have been used 70
b. many years to study the history Q
o. other times, and to examine and weigl
n the evidence OF those who have writer
sl about them, and l know of no one fac
les in the history Of mankind which /
,ct proved by letter and fuller evidence
u of every sort to the understanding Of
n~ fair enquirer"
VS. The fact of the Resurrection Of Chris
hit proves the divine authority OF on
ON Lord. His divine authority prove
Use the doctrines He attested. Anon
,Ip these is the resurrection of the deat
RE Chrisi's resurrection is the model as
inc is the warrant of our own.
hat Ell fl your glad voices in triumph on hig
For Jesus hath risen, and man cannot di
IA Vain were tho terrors that gathered aroui
=" And short the dominion of death and t
grave;
900, He burst from the fettess of darkness til
Ny bound him,
Resolendent in glory to live and TO save
Loud was the chorus of angels on high,
Tho Sayoir hath risen, and man cannot
1t Gloryito God, in full anthems of JOY!
is The being he gave us death cannot deStr'
Sad were the life we must part Win
morrow,
IF tears were our bIrthright and death w
'h" our end;
the Rnt Jesus hath choered the dark valley
sorrow,
lold And bade us, immortal, to Heaven asce,
ling Lit then your vG ss OF on5 sp shall
ling die"
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